02145cam a2200301 i 4500 894149478 AUA.1 20160815124026.0 141027s2015 miu b 001 0 eng 2014040103 9781587433665 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1587433664 (pbk. : alk. paper) (OCoLC)894149478 (OCoLC)881440359 (OCoLC)881448974 DLC eng rda DLC IG# WIO OCLCF TLE BTA CDX VP@ YDXCP BTCTA BDX PSP LNT OCLCO EXN pcc EXNS BT736.6 .S53 2015 241/.697 23 Sider, Ronald J. Nonviolent action : what Christian ethics demands but most Christians have never really tried / Ronald J. Sider. Grand Rapids, MI.: Brazos Press, c2015. xvi, 191 p ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Part I. Proving it works: from early beginnings to stunning success -- Early developments -- Gandhi: defeating the British Empire -- Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhian nonviolence: the battle against American racism -- Nonviolent intervention in guerrilla warfare -- Wheelchairs versus tanks -- Part II. Defeating the Soviet Empire -- Solidarity: a trade union and the Pope versus Communist dictators -- The revolution of the candles: the nonviolent overthrow of East German Communists -- Part III. Recent victories of a growing movement -- "Gather the women to pray for peace": Liberian women overthrow a dictator -- Nonviolence in the Arab Spring -- Intervening, accompanying, and reporting: the growth of peacemaker teams -- Part IV. The time to act -- Truly testing the possibilities of nonviolent action: for the first time in Christian history -- The moral equivalent of war. A noted theologian and bestselling author shows how nonviolent action has been practiced in history and in current social-political situations to promote peace and oppose injustice. Nonviolence Religious aspects Christianity History. lcc BOOK BT 736.6 .S53 2015 15513 15513 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2016-08-15 Bought by JTL 11.44 AUA018949 0 BT 736.6 .S53 2015 AUA018949 2016-08-15 00:00:00 11.44 2016-08-15 BOOK